Improvement in pocket-book fasteners



L; 'PRAH AR.

POCKET-BOOK FASTENER.

No. 177,747. Patent ed May 23,18 76.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

LOUIS PRAHAR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

I MPROVEMENT IN POCKET-BOOK FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,747, dated May 23,1876 application filed I March 25, 1876. p.

To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs PRAHAR, of New York, and county and State ofNew York,

proved fastener, shown as fastened. Fig. 2 is the same section as Fig.1, but shown as unfastened.

same.

The object of this invention is to simplify the construction and lessenthe cost of manu-. facture of pocket-book fasteners, and at the\ sametime furnish a fastener not liable to get out of order.

The invention will first be described in connection with drawing, andthen pointed out in claim.

A represents the base or inner plate of the fastener, which is made withpoints or claws a upon its edges, to be passed through and turned downupon the under side of .the article to which it is to be attached. Therear part of the plate A is struck up or made with an oifset, to form arecess to receive the arm I) otthe upper or face plate B. The flange ofFig. 3 is a rear-end view of the the plate A, at its rear end, has twoslits made in it, to form an arm, M, which passes through a short slotformed in the arm b of the plate B, and thus hinge the two plates B Atogether. The end of the arm a after bea receive the spring 0 andprevent the said spring from turning out of place sidewise.

The inner end of the spring 0 is secured to the under side of the plateA by having a hole formed through it, and punching a hole through thesaid plate A, through the hole in the said spring 0, and turning theburr down upon the said spring, securing the spring, and at the sametime forming an eyelet to receive the pin D, attached to the flap of thepocketbook.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is-- The combination of base-plate A, having arm a onits rear end, with the face-plate B, having a slotted arm, bsubstantially as and for the purpose specified. r

LOUIS PRAHAR.

Witnesses:

JAMES 'I. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER.

